Best Director
Year | Name | Country | Film | Status | Notes |
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1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | Rebecca | Nominee | ||
1944 | Alfred Hitchcock | Lifeboat | Nominee | ||
1945 | David Lean | Brief Encounter | Nominee | ||
Alfred Hitchcock | Spellbound | Nominee | |||
1947 | David Lean | Great Expectations | Nominee | ||
1955 | David Lean | Summertime | Nominee | ||
1956 | Michael Anderson | Around the World in Eighty Days | Nominee | ||
1957 | David Lean | The Bridge on the River Kwai | Winner | ||
1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | Psycho | Nominee | ||
1961 | J. Lee Thompson | The Guns of Navarone | Nominee | ||
1962 | David Lean | Lawrence of Arabia | Winner | ||
1963 | Tony Richardson | Tom Jones | Winner | ||
1964 | Robert Stevenson | Mary Poppins | Nominee | ||
1965 | John Schlesinger | Darling | Nominee | ||
David Lean | Doctor Zhivago | Nominee | |||
1967 | Norman Jewison | In the Heat of the Night | Nominee | ||
1968 | Carol Reed | Oliver! | Winner | ||
Anthony Harvey | The Lion in Winter | Nominee | |||
1969 | John Schlesinger | Midnight Cowboy | Winner | ||
1970 | Ken Russell | Women In Love | Nominee | ||
1971 | John Schlesinger | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Nominee | ||
Norman Jewison | Fiddler on the Roof | Nominee | |||
1972 | John Boorman | Deliverance | Nominee | ||
1978 | Alan Parker | Midnight Express | Nominee | ||
1979 | Peter Yates | Breaking Away | Nominee | ||
1981 | Hugh Hudson | Chariots of Fire | Nominee | ||
1982 | Richard Attenborough | Gandhi | Winner | ||
1983 | Peter Yates | The Dresser | Nominee | ||
1984 | David Lean | A Passage to India | Nominee | ||
Roland Joffé | The Killing Fields | Nominee | |||
1986 | Roland Joffé | The Mission | Nominee | ||
1987 | John Boorman | Hope and Glory | Nominee | ||
Norman Jewison | Moonstruck | Nominee | |||
Adrian Lyne | Fatal Attraction | Nominee | |||
1988 | Charles Crichton | A Fish Called Wanda | Nominee | ||
Alan Parker | Mississippi Burning | Nominee | |||
1989 | Kenneth Branagh | N. Ireland | Henry V | Nominee | |
Peter Weir | Dead Poets Society | Nominee | |||
1990 | Stephen Frears | The Grifters | Nominee | ||
1991 | Ridley Scott | Thelma & Louise | Nominee | ||
1993 | Jane Campion | The Piano | Nominee | Second woman ever to be nominated in this category. | |
1995 | Mel Gibson | Braveheart | Winner | Gibson is a US-born Australian director | |
Mike Figgis | Leaving Las Vegas | Nominee | |||
Michael Radford | The Postman (original title: Il postino) | Nominee | Radford is an English director born in India | ||
1996 | Scott Hicks | Shine | Nominee | ||
Mike Leigh | Secrets & Lies | Nominee | |||
Anthony Minghella | The English Patient | Winner | |||
1997 | James Cameron | Titanic | Winner | ||
Peter Cattaneo | The Full Monty | Nominee | |||
Atom Egoyan | The Sweet Hereafter | Nominee | |||
1998 | John Madden | Shakespeare in Love | Nominee | ||
Peter Weir | The Truman Show | Nominee | |||
1999 | Sam Mendes | American Beauty | Winner | ||
2000 | Stephen Daldry | Billy Elliot | Nominee | ||
Ridley Scott | Gladiator | Nominee | |||
2001 | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Nominee | ||
Ridley Scott | Black Hawk Down | Nominee | |||
2002 | Stephen Daldry | The Hours | Nominee | ||
2003 | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Winner | ||
Peter Weir | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Nominee | |||
2004 | Mike Leigh | Vera Drake | Nominee | ||
2005 | Paul Haggis | Crash | Nominee | ||
2006 | Stephen Frears | The Queen | Nominee | ||
Paul Greengrass | United 93 | Nominee | |||
2007 | Jason Reitman | Juno | Nominee | ||
2008 | Danny Boyle | Slumdog Millionaire | Winner | ||
Stephen Daldry | The Reader | Nominee | |||
2009 | James Cameron | Avatar | Nominee | ||
Jason Reitman | Up in the Air | Nominee | |||
2010 | Tom Hooper | The King's Speech | Winner |
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